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Penthouse for Hosting —  Private commission
“Hot Water is Cool” — FAR NEAR Volume 6: Heat

Traditional Chinese Medicine Apothecary Exhibition — WSA
AIR Strategy and Branding, Aspen Art Museum — 2x4
“Resurfacing Hong Kong’s Star Ferry” Peer Review, — Verge 11.2
Grand Palais Design Strategy — 2x4
The World Around Strategy — 2x4
Communicating Climate — Harvard GSD
“Feejee Mermaid x Stefanie Hesseler” — Pairs Journal 04
Matriarchal Blueprints — CCA Conference
“Terraqueous Intimacies: To Sink, Sip, and Swim” — DISC Issue 2.0
“MAAT: Oceanic Thought” — Rumor Review, Princeton SoA
Oceanic Protocols: Leaks and Trouble Waters — Harvard GSD  
Algae Composite Panels — Harvard SEA
The Transmogrify of a Towel — Princeton University
“How to: not become a “developer” — Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Sun Rises & Sets in Revere Beach Exhibition — Harvard GSD
Descendence: A Mermaid Manifesto — Harvard GSD
“Invisible Agents: SARS in Hong Kong” —  Informa Journal Vol. 13
“The Natures of Sanatoria” — KPF Traveling Fellowship
No Cure? Caring for Burnout in a Neoliberal Age — Cornell University
Pierre Paulin Program Exhibition — OMA x Paulin, Paulin, Paulin



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“Hot water is an acquired taste. It is brutal, colorless and fickle. Its clarity reveals every floating particle and magnifies every vessel’s blemish. Temperature – boiling hot 開水, hot 熱水, or lukewarm 溫水 – is only revealed when lips touch liquid. The aftertaste of hot water carries the stubborn stain of origin: plumbing infrastructure, energy supply network, and even the heating method and equipment. At my local diner, hot water tastes like coffee, an indicator that it was dispensed from the coffee machine. Yet, in contrast to that stubborn situatedness, the coveted warmth of hot water is fleeting: it dissipates in a matter of minutes and is not so easily regained...”

Essay by COCO C.T. TIN
Photography by BRIAN KANAGAKI
Prop direction by LULU YAO GIOIELLO
FAR - NEAR





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